February 12, 2008 – 11:35 am
The GeoServer team is excited to announce that GeoServer 1.6.0 has been released. There are a host of advances from 1.5.x, and many GeoServer users have been testing the release candidates and giving us great feedback, so this final release should be very stable. Foremost among the improvements is a huge performance [...]
January 31, 2008 – 5:56 pm
Though it’s a bit overdue, we finally got around to updating the GeoServer Roadmap. There’s a lot of activity going on, and we generally have a good sense of what should be completed in the next three months, with more and more vague ideas on what may be further out. I still want to work [...]
January 17, 2008 – 1:24 pm
We are happy to announce the third release candidate for 1.6.0. You can grab it from SourceForge.
That coveted 1.6.0 release is getting closer and closer and we are almost there. The previous release candidate brought out some performance related issues. A memory leak issue and a problem with filter parsing leading to stack overflows. [...]
December 19, 2007 – 10:02 am
We are happy to announce the second release candidate of GeoServer 1.6.0. You can download the release from SourceForge.
As usual this release candidate brings a heap of bug fixes, with a few minor improvements. Output formats such as KML, SVG, and GeoRSS have been tightened up fixing a few minor bugs. Backend issues such as [...]
November 29, 2007 – 7:32 pm
Though they’ve been with us for awhile, I realized the other day that some new developers in the GeoServer community never got introduced properly. They started working for The Open Planning Project (TOPP) a couple months ago, and have been working on some great stuff since then. Their primary goal is to combine TOPP’s two [...]
November 19, 2007 – 9:43 am
We are pleased to announce GeoServer 1.6.0-RC1 is available for download (try direct from sourceforge if that link isn’t working). Since beta4 the team has has closed over 60 issues, tightening up every single detail. This is easily the most solid first release candidate that we’ve ever issued, as we are wanting to [...]
November 13, 2007 – 8:35 pm
The Open Planning Project is pleased to announce that they have hired long time GeoServer community member and contributor Gabriel Roldán as a software developer and solutions consultant. He will remain based in Spain, and hopefully should help raise awareness and cooperation with other Spanish open source projects and organizations.
Gabriel first started on GeoServer in [...]
November 5, 2007 – 12:06 pm
So it’s been way too long since we posted anything on this blog other than release announcements. Which is not as it should be, since there’s been a ton happening in the GeoServer community. I’m going to try to catch up with a lot of the various news in the next week or two, but [...]
October 30, 2007 – 11:53 pm
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the availability of the latest stable release, 1.5.4.
This release mostly cleans up stuff for Google Earth and Maps. Generated maps now line up perfectly on Google Maps, with a fix to the projection code. This allows us to replace the Google Maps overlay demo with OpenLayers, so it [...]
October 29, 2007 – 10:33 am
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce what should be the last beta release in the 1.6 series. So please download, help us test, test, test, and RC1 should come out soon.
Beta4 has a number of great improvements, all across the board. The versioning support has had a number of improvements and bug fixes, soon [...]